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Why do so many of you hate Tiktok? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

bc people typing like this make me feel older than i actually am. i dislike the self-censorship of terms such as killing, fuck, etc, and I don't mean that in a chuddy anti-censorship way it just comes off as insincere when people say shit like unalive or whatever. to actually unpack why i hate it when people type like shown in the screenshot - nothing of substance is actually being said, it's just a bunch of canned phrases being used in their context. i understand this isn't representative of tiktok as a whole but it sure as hell is what i associate with tiktok.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

bro does NOT understand TikTok 😂😂😂😂😂🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Those comments are meant to be stupidly funny for teenagers not have substance lol (tho theyre pretty clever sometimes imo). If you get it you get it (and are also probably terminally online)

The self-censorship is bc tiktok has a history of shadowbanning content that uses certain words

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yea the unalive things a great example.

It's weird were treating certain words like voldemorts name but even weirder we all just agree on a really stupid sounding alternative that everybody knows means the exact same thing.

It's like it isn't the concept of suicide that people might not like, it's just the literal word itself apparently.

And now how long until you need another word because unalive just means suicide.

I know this is dangerously close to chuds arguments on why slurs aren't a biflg deal cus it just keeps getting changed but at least those are over a longer time frame and actually have the intention of changing the meaning and context of a term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's like it isn't the concept of suicide that people might not like, it's just the literal word itself apparently.

People don't beat around saying "suicide" because they're not trying to trigger anyone? It's a way of getting around censorship. Tiktok has history with hiding videos that talk about serious mental health issues from the algorithm (they even shadowbanned the word "depression" so people were using "d3pr3ssion" or some shit)

Sometimes people even self-censor while being intentionally triggering, for example they know if they said "kys" their comment would get filtered, so you might see people saying "unalive yourself" or "keep yourself safe"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Why argue against yourself? Nobody brought up chuds. Dont look weak man.